Group actions on manifolds / / Reinhard Schultz, editor

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1985]; ©1985
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (586 p.)
• Disciplina: 514/.3
• Soggetto topico: Manifolds (Mathematics); Group actions (Mathematics)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SchultzReinhard <1943->
• Note generali: "Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Group Actions on Manifolds, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 26-July 1, 1983"--Title page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Summary of Program""; ""List of Participants""; ""The work and influence of Deane Montgomery""; ""Bibliography of Deane Montgomery""; ""Homotopy-theoretic techniques and applications:""; ""Homotopy invariants and G-manifolds: A look at the past fifteen years""; ""Splitting semifree group actions on homotopy spheres into solid tori""; ""Equivariant Whitehead torsion and actions of compact lie groups""; ""Homological methods and machinery:""; ""A family of unusual torus group actions""; ""For G = s1 there is no G-Chern character"" ; ""Equivariant frameability of homotopy linear s1 actions on spheres""""Action maps on equivariant function spaces and applications to PL bordism""; ""Borsuk-Ulam theorems for prime periodic transformation groups""; ""On equivariant maps of Stiefel manifolds""; ""Applications of surgery and geometric topology:""; ""Representations at fixed points""; ""Transformation groups and fixed point data""; ""Lectures on transformation groups and Smith equivalence""; ""Transformation groups and exotic spheres""; ""Constructions of group actions: A survey of recent developments"" ; ""Concordance of group actions on spheres""""Induction in equivariant K-theory and s-Smith equivalence of representations""; ""Smith equivalent representations of generalized quaternion groups""; ""s-Smith equivalent representations for finite abelian groups""; ""Isotropy representations of nonabelian finite group actions""; ""Low-dimensional topology and transformation groups:""; ""Transformation groups and low-dimensional manifolds""; ""Homogeneous spaces and seifert fiberings:""; ""The role of Seifert fiber spaces in transformation groups""; ""Realizing group automorphisms"" ; ""Cohomology of a Siegel modular variety of degree two""""Transformation groups and differential geometry:""; ""Newman's Theorem and the Hilbert-Smith Conjecture""; ""Geometry, representation theory, and the Yang-Mills functional""; ""Problems:""; ""Problems submitted to the A.M.S. Summer Research Conference on Group Actions""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Realization questions""; ""2. Inductive existence and classification questions""; ""3. Absolute existence questions""; ""4. General structure questions""; ""5. Questions involving equivariant algebraic topology"" ; ""6. Questions on group actions and low-dimensional topology.""""7. Problems concerning smooth actions on spheres""; ""8. Problems concerning actions on spherelike spaces""; ""9. Group actions and topological singularities""; ""10. Topological similarity of representations""; ""11. Transformation groups and geometry""
• Titolo autorizzato: Group actions on manifolds
• ISBN: 0-8218-7621-X; 0-8218-5389-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480872203321
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• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; ; volume 36.